Our guidebook to Austin
Essentials
⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️7 minutes |
Walking distance from the house... And they close at 11 pm!!! Awesome for last minute ice cream cravings - And it has a pharmacy
1667 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
H-E-B
5808 Burnet Rd⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️7 minutes |
Walking distance from the house... And they close at 11 pm!!! Awesome for last minute ice cream cravings - And it has a pharmacy
⭐ 🚗 1 minute ~ 🚶♀️4 minutes | Walking distance. Great selection of quality products. Breakfast tacos and Middle Eastern favorites (shawarma, falafel, etc...)
22 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
Native Grocery
705 Tillery St⭐ 🚗 1 minute ~ 🚶♀️4 minutes | Walking distance. Great selection of quality products. Breakfast tacos and Middle Eastern favorites (shawarma, falafel, etc...)
🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️10 minutes | Closest liquor store
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The Austin Shaker
1199 Airport Blvd🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️10 minutes | Closest liquor store
Trendy Restaurants
⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️17 minutes | Steaks & snails plus wine & cocktails in a little bungalow with a light-strung patio.
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Justine's
4710 E 5th St⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️17 minutes | Steaks & snails plus wine & cocktails in a little bungalow with a light-strung patio.
⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️14 minutes | Casual izakaya & bar serving meat-centric shareable plates with Japanese & Texan influences.
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Kemuri Tatsu-Ya
2713 E 2nd St⭐ 🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️14 minutes | Casual izakaya & bar serving meat-centric shareable plates with Japanese & Texan influences.
🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️30 minutes | Gourmet New American fare served in a polished cafe space in a converted gas station/Laundromat.
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Launderette
2115 Holly St🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️30 minutes | Gourmet New American fare served in a polished cafe space in a converted gas station/Laundromat.
🚗 6 minutes | Locally sourced ingredients - Farm-to-table fare from locally sourced ingredients served in a rustic space with a butcher shop.
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Dai Due
2406 Manor Rd🚗 6 minutes | Locally sourced ingredients - Farm-to-table fare from locally sourced ingredients served in a rustic space with a butcher shop.
June's
1722 S Congress Ave🚗 13 minutes | Super hip bistro. Really cute
🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️15 minutes | Southern classics elevated by farm-fresh ingredients in a rustic space with a lush garden & a shop.
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Jacoby's Restaurant & Mercantile
3235 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️15 minutes | Southern classics elevated by farm-fresh ingredients in a rustic space with a lush garden & a shop.
🚗 13 minutes |Charming outpost offering French breakfast bites & creative Vietnamese plates for lunch & dinner
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Elizabeth Street Cafe
1501 S 1st St🚗 13 minutes |Charming outpost offering French breakfast bites & creative Vietnamese plates for lunch & dinner
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Israeli/Mediterranean restaurant with delicious food. Highly recommend
Ezov
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Israeli/Mediterranean restaurant with delicious food. Highly recommend
Canje
Great fine dinning place that elevates Caribbean cuisine.
Suerte
1800 E 6th StVery good Mexican food
Mexican Restaurants Eastside
⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️30 minutes |Authentic Mexican food - Great ceviche
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Licha's Cantina
1306 E 6th St⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️30 minutes |Authentic Mexican food - Great ceviche
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | We really enjoy this place. Great atmosphere - Mari loves their "barbacoa" tacos. Their refried beans are smoked and really like how different day taste too. Non alcohol drinks are really good and their house margarita is really strong.
39 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
De Nada Cantina
4715 East Cesar Chavez Street⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | We really enjoy this place. Great atmosphere - Mari loves their "barbacoa" tacos. Their refried beans are smoked and really like how different day taste too. Non alcohol drinks are really good and their house margarita is really strong.
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️ 28 minutes | Bright, straightforward counter-serve spot offering traditional Mexican food, plus beer & wine.
Really good and very popular
78 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
Nixta Taqueria
2512 E 12th St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️ 28 minutes | Bright, straightforward counter-serve spot offering traditional Mexican food, plus beer & wine.
Really good and very popular
Ma'Coco
BBQ
La Barbecue
2401 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes
⭐ 🚗 5 minutes | Probably our favorite for BBQ. "Franklin's" is great but too long of a wait
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Micklethwait Craft Meats
1309 Rosewood Ave⭐ 🚗 5 minutes | Probably our favorite for BBQ. "Franklin's" is great but too long of a wait
🚗 7 minutes | Amazing but usually a really long wait
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Franklin Barbecue
900 E 11th St🚗 7 minutes | Amazing but usually a really long wait
🚗 33 minutes | You will need a car to come here but it is a truly Texas experience.
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Salt Lick BBQ
18300 Farm to Market Rd 1826🚗 33 minutes | You will need a car to come here but it is a truly Texas experience.
Casual Food+Drinks
⭐ 🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️10 minutes | Retro all-day cafe, patio & grocery selling beer & wine, serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Interesting concept “random stuff”/convenient store, combine with a bar and eclectic food menu. The staff can sometimes border line “too cool for school” but otherwise a great place for drinks and great value food.
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Kinda Tropical
3501 E 7th St⭐ 🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️10 minutes | Retro all-day cafe, patio & grocery selling beer & wine, serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Interesting concept “random stuff”/convenient store, combine with a bar and eclectic food menu. The staff can sometimes border line “too cool for school” but otherwise a great place for drinks and great value food.
⭐ 🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️9 minutes | Great vegan and good cocktails, very casual but close to the house
Sunny's Backyard
3526 East 7th Street⭐ 🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️9 minutes | Great vegan and good cocktails, very casual but close to the house
⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Casual counter-service Temaki (hand roll) bar, sushi class space
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Uroko
1023 Springdale Road⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Casual counter-service Temaki (hand roll) bar, sushi class space
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Microbrewery beer hall & pub grub menu in a spacious converted machine works with an outdoor area.
** check their calendar for live music**
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Central Machine Works
4824 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Microbrewery beer hall & pub grub menu in a spacious converted machine works with an outdoor area.
** check their calendar for live music**
🚗 6 minutes | Considered the best burger in town
** East 5th location is the closest to us**
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Hopdoddy Burger Bar
1400 S Congress Ave🚗 6 minutes | Considered the best burger in town
** East 5th location is the closest to us**
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️22 minutes | Really really good Detroit style pizza
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Via 313 Pizza
10106 W 6th St⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️22 minutes | Really really good Detroit style pizza
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Hip hangout with both a bakery/cafe & a creekside beer garden serving simple snacks & cheeses.
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Easy Tiger
1501 E 7th St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Hip hangout with both a bakery/cafe & a creekside beer garden serving simple snacks & cheeses.
🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️13 minutes | Mexican street food, ice cream and fruit cups doled out in a narrow, no frills space
***"Mango Hill" is one of their most popular items***
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Hay Elotes
2214 E 7th St🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️13 minutes | Mexican street food, ice cream and fruit cups doled out in a narrow, no frills space
***"Mango Hill" is one of their most popular items***
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️11 minutes | Walking distance - popular Colombian restaurant
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Casa Colombia
2409 E 7th St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️11 minutes | Walking distance - popular Colombian restaurant
🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️11 minutes | Awesome food trailer! Converted shipping container offering Vietnamese bahn mi & other street snacks
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Saigon Le Vendeur
2601 E 7th St🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️11 minutes | Awesome food trailer! Converted shipping container offering Vietnamese bahn mi & other street snacks
⭐ 🚗 6 minutes | This food truck outside the Vortex theater dishes up old-school Italian standards & housemade pasta.
DELICIOUS PLACE, I always crave Patrizi's lol
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Patrizi's
2307 Manor Rd⭐ 🚗 6 minutes | This food truck outside the Vortex theater dishes up old-school Italian standards & housemade pasta.
DELICIOUS PLACE, I always crave Patrizi's lol
🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️24 minutes | Relaxed Indian restaurant serving traditional curries plus fusion tacos & curried margaritas.
35 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
Nasha
1614 E 7th St🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️24 minutes | Relaxed Indian restaurant serving traditional curries plus fusion tacos & curried margaritas.
⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️28 minutes | Wine Bar and restaurant. Fairly new but it has great reviews.
30 icetyiswa ngabantu basekuhlaleni
Birdie's
2944 East 12th Street⭐ 🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️28 minutes | Wine Bar and restaurant. Fairly new but it has great reviews.
Chinese restaurant, casual, easy to get in and friendly staff
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Sweet Chive
2515 E Cesar Chavez StChinese restaurant, casual, easy to get in and friendly staff
Vermicelli, Spring Roll, Eggroll & more. Very good Banh Mi. Used to be a food truck but now it's a casual small restaurant. Easily accessible walking from our place.
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Saigon Le Vendeur
2601 E 7th StVermicelli, Spring Roll, Eggroll & more. Very good Banh Mi. Used to be a food truck but now it's a casual small restaurant. Easily accessible walking from our place.
Breakfast
⭐ 🚶♀️5 minutes | Walking distance - Amarillo's Evocation coffee & local pastry brands served from quaint, retro camper with patio seats.
Pueblo viejo is the food truck at fitch coffee, serving tacos and other delicious food
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Flitch Coffee
641 Tillery St⭐ 🚶♀️5 minutes | Walking distance - Amarillo's Evocation coffee & local pastry brands served from quaint, retro camper with patio seats.
Pueblo viejo is the food truck at fitch coffee, serving tacos and other delicious food
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Pastries and bread here are the best in town!
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Easy Tiger
1501 E 7th St⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️26 minutes | Pastries and bread here are the best in town!
🚗 1 minute ~ 🚶♀️7 minutes | | A local working class hole in the wall but don't judge its cover, there breakfast tacos are cheap and good, they are greasy but great
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Marcelino's
901 Tillery St🚗 1 minute ~ 🚶♀️7 minutes | | A local working class hole in the wall but don't judge its cover, there breakfast tacos are cheap and good, they are greasy but great
🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️22 minutes | Breakfast tacos & traditional dishes in a basic setting with outdoor patio. Have been on the Eastside since 1980
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Juan in a Million
2300 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️22 minutes | Breakfast tacos & traditional dishes in a basic setting with outdoor patio. Have been on the Eastside since 1980
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️18 minutes | Health-minded Austin chain serving juices, smoothies & hot drinks, plus noodle bowls & salads.
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JuiceLand
1625 Barton Springs Rd🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️18 minutes | Health-minded Austin chain serving juices, smoothies & hot drinks, plus noodle bowls & salads.
🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️12 minutes | Cafe serving coffee & espresso drinks plus Japanese toast & other bites in snug, hip digs.
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Sa-Tén
916 Springdale Rd🚗 3 minutes ~ 🚶♀️12 minutes | Cafe serving coffee & espresso drinks plus Japanese toast & other bites in snug, hip digs.
⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Shrimp & grits plus jambalaya & gumbos served in a slick, retro-modern diner with a bar & patio.
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Sawyer & Co
4827 E Cesar Chavez St⭐ 🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️20 minutes | Shrimp & grits plus jambalaya & gumbos served in a slick, retro-modern diner with a bar & patio.
🚗 6 minutes | Vibrant, retro chain serving a seasonal menu of creative breakfast & lunch fare, plus cocktails.
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Snooze an AM Eatery
1700 S Lamar Blvd🚗 6 minutes | Vibrant, retro chain serving a seasonal menu of creative breakfast & lunch fare, plus cocktails.
Cafe serving natural, organic & generally locally sourced fare with breakfast served all day.
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Counter Cafe
1914 E 6th StCafe serving natural, organic & generally locally sourced fare with breakfast served all day.
Vegan
🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️28 minutes | Juice bar, bakery & eatery rolled into one, with vegetarian Mexican eats served in a modest setting.
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Mr. Natural
1901 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 5 minutes ~ 🚶♀️28 minutes | Juice bar, bakery & eatery rolled into one, with vegetarian Mexican eats served in a modest setting.
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️23 minutes | Local bakery preparing all-vegan treats including cupcakes, brownies & special-occasion cakes.
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Capital City Bakery
2211 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️23 minutes | Local bakery preparing all-vegan treats including cupcakes, brownies & special-occasion cakes.
🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️21 minutes | A variety of creative, plant-based tacos served from a funky food truck with outdoor picnic tables.
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The Vegan Nom
2324 E Cesar Chavez St🚗 4 minutes ~ 🚶♀️21 minutes | A variety of creative, plant-based tacos served from a funky food truck with outdoor picnic tables.
Sunny's Backyard
3526 East 7th Street🚗 2 minutes ~ 🚶♀️9 minutes | We come here often for drinks and great vegan food!
🚗 14 minutes | Eco-friendly, bohemian cafe offering hearty meatless meals, coffees & a rotating monthly art show.
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Bouldin Creek Cafe
1900 S 1st St🚗 14 minutes | Eco-friendly, bohemian cafe offering hearty meatless meals, coffees & a rotating monthly art show.
🚗 13 minutes | Elevated pizza, plus vegan & gluten-free options, dispensed from a window with outdoor seating.
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Li'l Nonna's
2908 Fruth Street🚗 13 minutes | Elevated pizza, plus vegan & gluten-free options, dispensed from a window with outdoor seating.
🚗 14 minutes | Punk rock, female-led bakery serving vegan sweet & savory goods that are also soy & gluten-free.
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Zucchini Kill
701 E 53rd St🚗 14 minutes | Punk rock, female-led bakery serving vegan sweet & savory goods that are also soy & gluten-free.
🚗 15 minutes | Vegan gastropub with 40 craft taps serving hearty plant-based dishes in farmhouse-inspired digs.
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The Beer Plant
3110 Windsor Rd🚗 15 minutes | Vegan gastropub with 40 craft taps serving hearty plant-based dishes in farmhouse-inspired digs.